He first came to national attention when Leo Beenhakker, then the manager of the country’s biggest club, América, surprisingly decided to turn to the 17-year-old when the club’s first-choice goalkeeper, Adolfo Ríos, got injured. By then Ochoa was a sensation in his homeland, where he is referred to as “Memo”, the nickname he has had since childhood. So Ochoa signed for the Ligue 1 strugglers. The only team who stayed in touch with me was Ajaccio.” By then, all negotiations had been cancelled and contacts disappeared. It took two months for our names to be cleared. “We were facing a possible ban of one or two seasons. “The initial results were announced in May 2011, just before the official opening of the transfer window,” the goalkeeper said last year when explaining why a planned move to Paris Saint-Germain fell through. Ochoa was one of five Mexico players who tested positive for clenbuterol after a Gold Cup match in 2011 and even though they were cleared two months later when an investigation concluded that they had unwittingly eaten contaminated meat, damage to Ochoa’s career had already been done. Not because substance abuse can cause memory loss and inattention, but because the Mexico goalkeeper would probably have signed for a major European club three years ago if he had not failed a dope test. I f you were not familiar with Guillermo Ochoa before his exploits against Brazil last night, perhaps you should blame the drugs.
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